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Fourth Plinth

6 February 2008 in fourth plinth, jeremy deller, yinka shonibare | Leave a comment

Ongoing… what should appear on the ‘fourth plinth‘ in Trafalgar Square? Some of the shortlisted proposals reference the Iraq war, colonialism, militarism and the dominant symbolism of the square  |  The winning proposal will go on display in 2009 for 18 months  |  Related conference on art in the public imagination on 29 February 2008  |  The proposal by Jeremy Deller would involve the display of the remains of a car damaged by violence in Iraq…  |  Time Out bit on the thing that is there at the moment…  |  The new commissions have been announced: Anthony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare

Memorial to the Iraq War

23 May 2007 in iraq, jeremy deller, london | 1 comment

Exhibition that ran 23 May to 27 June 2007 at the ICA. 26 artists were invited to submit proposals  |   Jeremy Deller did a great sketch on the wall of two outline maps (UK and Iraq) with key place names (e.g. Aberdeen; Kirkuk) transposed… but I didn’t get a picture and I can’t find one online. Let me know if you have one…